Re: magic_quotes_gpc? Session variables

At 8:08 AM -0400 6/12/06, Mk wrote: >Hey gang, > > I was having the weirdest problems when I decided to update the code for my site(written in > PHP) last modified over a year ago. The code ran fine under my home development system, but on the > hosting machine(1and1.com), my code would break. Horribly. > > I narrowed the problem to this - If I have a variable in $_SESSION(for example, > 'username') and in my page, I declare a variable (for example > '$username="guest"'), I've effectively accessed and overwritten the session > variable. It's been over a year, but I believe this is due to magic_quotes_gpc flag being 1 > or something - I checked with my host's phpinfo page and it is set to 1. > > My question is(before I send my host an e-mail to ask them to turn it off for my site) is, > magic_quotes_gpc IS the culprit, right? I mean the whole behavior of if you declare a variable : > > $_SESSION['username'] = "Mark" > > then you can just write $username instead of $_SESSION["username"] to access the > session variable is because of magic_quotes_gpc? > >Thanks in advance, >Mk Mk: I believe that "magic_quotes_gpc" doesn't have anything to do with your problem. If you want, you can read about "magic_quotes_gpc" here: http://us3.php.net/magic_quotes Back to your problem -- place this at the start of your code: <?php session_start(); $_SESSION['username']; After that, you can do: $_SESSION["username"] = "Mark"; echo($username); And it should work -- at least it works for me. If you want to turn magic_quotes_gpc OFF, try placing a ".htaccess" file in your root with the following statement. php_value magic_quotes_gpc 0 I don't know under what conditions one is allowed to do this, but this is what I do with my servers. hth's tedd -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com